Wednesday, July 14, 2010

What is Mundane?

I clean toilets. I hate cleaning toilets. I'm great at cleaning toilets. Cleaning toilets is mundane. Therefore, I hate the mundane. Whether or not I am good at it is irrelevant. Showering is mundane, but I like showering. So I don't hate the mundane. What seperates mundane toilets from mundane showers?
  • Showering is necessary and so is cleaning toilets. So its not that one is more necessary than the other.
  • Cleaning toilets makes me money, taking a shower does not.
  • I like money but hate cleaning toilets, so the mundane does not relate to how much money I make.
  • Taking a shower benefits me directly. Cleaning toilets affect me eventually, once every two weeks dependant on how long I clean toilets. So its not the benefits.
  • I want to eventually run a network of ministries across the world. I don't want to clean toilets anymore. One is my calling, one is a means to support my calling, therefore I do the mundane to support the extra ordinary.

The definition of mundane is that which is ordinary, regular, and unwavered. People are complicated. We like to do stuff exciting. We hate the unexciting.

To wrap it up... mundane is a preference and whatever we want it to be.

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